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Ghana football Association technical director Francis Oti Akenteng has quashed reports indicating he played a role in the appointment of new Hearts coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi. Oti Akenteng has received massive bashings from the football public for allegedly selecting a �substandard� coach for the Ghanaian giants. The former Heart of Lions coach who now works as a CAF instructor training local coaches is said to have recommended the Japanese to the Club. He was further blamed for ignoring the local coaches to recommend a foreigner. The astute football personality in an interview with Ghana Sports Newspaper vehemently denied such reports. �With this issue I don�t even want to talk about it because the more you talk about it the more people think is true,� he told Ghana Sports. �As I speak to you the Hearts management have asked Gerald to come and apologize to me.� �To be Frank I don�t know where this is coming from and I don�t know why someone will come out to say something like that.� �It is true they contacted me that they wanted to choose a coach so I should help them and I gave them my consent.�But I didn�t recommend the Japanese coach for them.� �Ask them if I even came for any of their meetings when they were selecting the coach. I never came to their meeting. They only contacted me on the Phone to tell me their intention that�s all. I never heard from them again.� Kenichi has been heavily criticized since his appointment as new Hearts coach